The Business Case for Supplier Diversity
Thursday November 14 • 9:30am-10:30am
National Supply Chain Forum, BMO Center, Calgary
www.supplychainforum.ca
A Thought Leadership Panel Brought to You in Partnership with:
Panel session description:
Supplier diversity represents a proactive business process that helps provide Aboriginal, minority and women-owned suppliers equal access to bid opportunities. Large organizations in sectors such as automotive, banking and finance as well as technology have long realized the ROI of sourcing from diverse suppliers. Canada’s energy sector can also reap those benefits including increased flexibility, innovation leading to cost savings, improved access to an important and growing labour force, enhanced social license, amongst others.
This panel discussion will focus on the business case for utilizing diverse suppliers within the energy sector and the benefits of engaging prime suppliers to identify opportunities across the entire supply chain. Tips for getting buy-in from the C-suite to pursue a supplier diversity program, how to build supplier diversity into an RFP and metrics for measuring success will also be discussed.
A featured editorial report on this session will appear in the January/February 2014 edition of PurchasingB2B.
Moderator:
Moderator: Michael Power, editor, PurchasingB2B
Panelists:
Cassandra Dorrington, President of the Canadian Aboriginal Minority & Supplier Council (CAMSC)
Reginald Humphrey, Supplier Diversity Manager, General Motors
Jenny Larocque, Corporate Development Officer, Spirit Staffing & Consulting Inc.
Charles Varvarikos, Head Facilities Sourcing, RBC
